“Excuse me,” said the man beside the dairy case, politely, “But can you help me?” I’d watched his son zooming around on rollerball sneakers earlier, swooshing in circles around my cart until his father brought him to heel. The son, about 7, had grinned at me sheepishly, “Sorry,” and hurried back to where his father stood, frowning at a list [...]
Then there was the time, at my first tech journalist job, when the entire network crashed right before deadline. Just died. –snick– Pandemonium, everyone running around screaming (especially the ad sales people, whose commissions depended on the info in the servers), and the managing editor bravely dragging out the hot wax and paper for some old-fashioned newspaper-style layout. Our parent [...]
I spent the first half of last Sunday down at Newspace, having a ball, learning a lot, and getting another whomp upside the head. For those of you who don’t know, Newspace is a non-profit photography center over on the southeast side of glassland, not too far from OMSI. They’re dedicated to promoting photographic art, and they offer classes, portfolio reviews and [...]
If you wanna understand just how inadequate you are as a visual artist, go paint-your-plating with a bunch of graphic designers. Actually, that’s not quite fair: I had a LOT of fun. Group I’m contracting with right now was nice enough to invite me out for a “team-building” exercise. I didn’t really belong (I’m not an employee, after all), but [...]
Dinner theatre website Location: SE Portland (Hawthorne district) Showtimes: Generally Fridays and Saturday nights (make reservations) Cost to fill up (and entertain) two people: $140 plus tip And youse said I don’t got no cultcha. Ahhbviussly, you was wrong. Robyn texted me Friday to ask if I wanted to see who stole her dead husband. I briefly debated sending flowers [...]
La Provence website Location: Lake Oswego, OR Cost to break the fast of two people: About $40 “If you do restaurant reviews, you’ve gotta try this place,” said Bonnie Gilchrist, so we had breakfast at La Provence in Lake Oswego this morning, while we talked GAS. (That’s G.A.S., acronym for Glass Art Society, not the lowercase variety that emerges after [...]
Serves 12... if you can find the plates Blow the dust off your old recipe box and pull out that superb three-years-in-development recipe for your award-winning Triple-Chocoholic cake. No recipe. Recall the time you were late for the hotshop, needed a couple of index cards to line up colored powder on the marver like cocaine on a mirror, and the [...]
Lani of Bullseye posted a short on how the company uses cryogenics and vaporizers to cut their natural gas use. I had to chuckle because I have fond memories of that equipment. You see, when those vaporizers were installed I was sitting about 20 feet away, taking a class from Catharine Newell. That class was hitting my brain like a 10-pound [...]
I know I said that I was off writing about glass projects for awhile (seeing as how I'm revamping the studio and swamped with dayjob stuff), but I just noticed that seven of the last eight posts were about restaurants. While that speaks well for my social life (I suppose), it does seem a bit lopsided. So, while I'm getting [...]
Hmmmm. I think the glass me looks a lot less harried. Whenever this blog stops being about glass for awhile, one or two people will drop me a line about it. Gee, it’s nice that you folks notice. (Thanks!) This morning, for example, I received a gentle prod about the lack of glassist posts. “Loved the thing about the self-portrait, but what [...]